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Jersey Shore was back on top of the cable world easily taking the most-viewed cable program of the week title with 7.7 million viewers. WWE Raw took the second and third spots with NCIS and SpongeBob rounding out the top five.

Impressively, the NCIS that ranked fourth for the week with over 5 million viewers went up against the Academy Awards Red Carpet coverage plus the opening half hour of the actual awards show. The Knicks/Heat game, which also went up against the Oscars for most of its telecast was the week’s top sports program (excluding WWE Raw) with 4.2 million viewers.

Top 25 Basic cable shows for the week ending February 27, 2011:

Rank

Program

Network

Day

Time

Viewers (000)

1

JERSEY SHORE 2B

MTV

Thu

10:00P-11:00P

7,726

2

WWE ENTERTAINMENT

USA

Mon

09:00P-10:00P

5,892

3

WWE ENTERTAINMENT

USA

Mon

10:00P-11:04P

5,820

4

NCIS

USA

Sun

08:00P-09:00P

5,060

5

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Sat

09:30A-10:00A

4,775

6

NCIS

USA

Sun

07:00P-08:00P

4,747

7

BOLT

DSNY

Fri

07:00P-08:45P

4,495

8

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Mon

04:30P-05:00P

4,418

9

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Sat

09:00A-09:30A

4,398

10

BIG TIME RUSH

NAN

Mon

08:00P-09:00P

4,235

11

KNICKS/HEAT

ESPN

Sun

08:00P-10:45P

4,213

12

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Mon

04:00P-04:30P

4,195

13

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Sun

09:30A-10:00A

4,188

14

NCIS

USA

Thu

07:00P-08:00P

4,159

15

ROYAL PAINS

USA

Thu

09:00P-10:00P

4,054

16

SPONGEBOB THE MOVIE

NICK

Mon

10:00A-12:00P

4,039

17

NCIS

USA

Mon

07:00P-08:00P

4,014

18

TEEN MOM II

MTV

Tue

10:00P-11:00P

4,006

19

T.U.F.F. PUPPY

NICK

Sat

10:00A-10:30A

4,001

20

NCIS

USA

Sun

09:00P-10:00P

3,951

21

BOLT

DSNY

Sat

11:00A-12:45P

3,947

22

NCIS

USA

Thu

08:00P-09:00P

3,937

23

NCIS

USA

Mon

08:00P-09:00P

3,860

24

LRC: 2011 ACADEMY AWARDS

EN

Sun

06:00P-08:00P

3,856

25

NCIS

USA

Wed

07:00P-08:00P

3,847

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